Bedford-Stuyvesant rally

A rally and speak-out with the theme “Community Under Attack, Building A Fightback” was held Aug. 27 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, N.Y. The rally, organized by Harriet’s Daughters, connected the issue of opposing imperialist wars abroad with the struggle for social justice at home.

Harriet refers to Harriet Tubman, a leader of the underground railroad who helped hundreds of slaves escape from the Southern slave states to the North in the decade before the U.S. Civil War. Harriet’s Daughters—well-known and respected activists such as Nellie Bailey (at mike), Brenda Stokely, Rosemari Mealy, Joan Gibbs and Cleo Silvers—are carrying forth Tubman’s fight-back legacy. Longtime freedom fighters Amina Baraka, Iyaluua Ferguson, Mae Jackson and Una Mulzac were honored during the rally.

Speakers included representatives from the Million Worker March Movement, Jericho Movement, Al-Awda Right to Return Coalition, Harlem Tenants Coun cil, Troops Out Now Coalition, Dec ember 12th Movement, International Action Center, ProLibertad, Malcolm X Grass roots Movement, Free the Cuban Five Com mittee, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition and many others.

—Story & photos by Monica Moorehead